Car flees traffic stop, crashes into bus for disabled; 2 injured

A bus driver and a passenger were hospitalized with injuries that were not life threatening after a Toyota Camry fled a traffic stop and crashed into a bus for the disabled.

A bus driver and a passenger were hospitalized with injuries that were not life threatening after a Toyota Camry fled a traffic stop and crashed into a bus for the disabled. (Boynton Beach Police Department / courtesy)

Two people were injured after a Toyota fled from a traffic stop and crashed into a paratransit bus for disabled people Monday evening, Boynton Beach police said.

The bus driver and a passenger were taken to a hospital with injuries that were not life threatening, said Stephanie Slater, a spokeswoman for the Boynton Beach Police Department.

The crash into a Palm Tran Connection bus took occurred at about 6:10 p.m. after the driver of a Toyota Camry fled from a traffic stop in the 2000 block of Federal Highway, south of East Woolbright Road, Slater said.

The car’s driver and a passenger ran from the car. A police dog helped capture the driver. The passenger was also apprehended, Slater said.